page_pool: Fix PP_MAGIC_MASK to avoid crashing on some 32-bit arches (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-40199
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 4 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: page_pool: Fix PP_MAGIC_MASK to avoid crashing on some 32-bit arches Helge reported that the introduction of PP_MAGIC_MASK let to crashes on boot on his 32-bit parisc machine. The cause of this is the mask is set too wide, so the page_pool_page_is_pp() incurs false positives which crashes the machine. Just disabling the check in page_pool_is_pp() will lead to the page_pool code itself malfunctioning; so instead of doing this, this patch changes the define for PP_DMA_INDEX_BITS to avoid mistaking arbitrary kernel pointers for page_pool-tagged pages. The fix relies on the kernel pointers that alias with the pp_magic field always being above PAGE_OFFSET. With this assumption, we can use the lowest bit of the value of PAGE_OFFSET as the upper bound of the PP_DMA_INDEX_MASK, which should avoid the false positives. Because we cannot rely on PAGE_OFFSET always being a compile-time constant, nor on it always being >0, we fall back to disabling the dma_index storage when there are not enough bits available. This leaves us in the situation we were in before the patch in the Fixes tag, but only on a subset of architecture configurations. This seems to be the best we can do until the transition to page types in complete for page_pool pages. v2: - Make sure there's at least 8 bits available and that the PAGE_OFFSET bit calculation doesn't wrap

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Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 4f51fb0d257ff4d406ec27966902de075e3b118e < 15b8a5b4cdc16e9a8bb2a548e12a0fd92997605a ; affected ee62ce7a1d909ccba0399680a03c2dee83bcae95 < f62934cea32c8f7b11b747975d69bf5afe4264cf ; affected ee62ce7a1d909ccba0399680a03c2dee83bcae95 < 95920c2ed02bde551ab654e9749c2ca7bc3100e0 ; affected c30ae60f41f9edd6e1b5cad41cf28ce04dae39e4 ; affected 6.12.34 < 6.12.54 ; affected 6.15.3 < 6.16
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.16 ; unaffected 0 < 6.16 ; unaffected 6.12.54 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.17.4 ≤ 6.17.* ; unaffected 6.18 ≤ *

Sources

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